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Plotinus | Resources

6.30pm to 8pm, from Monday 13 February, Level 2, Greek Orthodox Community, 168 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Zoom link for all six classes | Dial-up +61 3 7018 2005 (Meeting ID: 843 7763 1376 Passcode: 823173)

Course Outline for weekly readings

Access the texts

In Print: read the MacKenna translation in the Penguin abridged edition.

In PDF: read the Greek/English Armstrong translation in the Loeb edition.
Porphyry’s Life + Ennead I | Ennead II | Ennead III | Ennead IV | Ennead V | Ennead VI Tract 1-5 | Ennead VI Tract 6-9 (Also available in print, but all 7 volumes are required.)

Catch-up Class videos

Go to the Youtube playlist for all recordings or follow the links below.

Week 1

Session 1 | Introducing Plotinus and neo-Platonism | Porpyry’s The life of Plotinus
Slide from Session 1 showing the main paths of influence on Plotinus

Week 2

Session 2 | Catch-up Ennead 1,6 [1] “On Beauty”

Week 3

Session 3 | The neo-Platonic One | Ennead 6,9 [9] “On the Good or the One”

Week 4

Session 4 | The soul’s descent | Ennead 4,8 [6] “The Soul’s descent into body”

Week 5

Session 5 | Emanation down the three levels of reality | Ennead 5,1 [10] “The three primary hypostases”

Week 6

Session 6 | On rejecting the world as evil | Ennead 2, 9 [33] “Against the Gnostics”